Dan Nicholson
Software Engineering Manager at Tesco Mobile
Morpeth, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDan Nicholson is a Software Engineering Manager and Salesforce Certified Application Architect with 11 years of hands-on experience building SaaS and enterprise systems across Salesforce, LAMP, and Python stacks. He currently leads engineering at Tesco Mobile and previously architected award-winning Lightning UX and CI/CD integrations at Sage, plus led delivery on 30+ projects as Lead Developer at Appsolutely/Valtech. Dan combines technical architecture, security stewardship (AppExchange and OWASP), and people leadership—recruiting, mentoring, and defining roles like “Quality Champion” to boost team throughput. He has a track record of creating reusable front-end frameworks (300+ components), implementing early GitHub/Codeship CI for finance products, and owning end-to-end product security reviews. Based in Morpeth, UK, he blends pragmatic delivery with sustainability and way-of-working initiatives, showing an uncommon focus on operational tooling and corporate social responsibility alongside engineering.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasBSc, Computing Science, BSc, Computing Science at Newcastle UniversityDiploma, Project Management, Diploma, Project Management at Advance Learning Inc.
Github Skills (37)
speech-to-text10
opencv10
bot-platform10
modular10
python10
audio10
nodejs10
raspberry-pi10
arduino10
speech-synthesis9
ctc9
speech9
speech-recognition8
asr8
neopixel7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
danic85/virtual_assistant
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 33 PRs, 349 pushes in 6 days
telegram-botpythonassistanthome-automationtelegram
makerforgetech/modular-biped
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
An open source framework for creating a bipedal modular companion robot.
Contributions:3 releases, 18 reviews, 261 commits in 3 years 5 months
braillespeakraspberry-pipythonbot-platformcompanion-bot
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